Dr. Jürgen Eikenbusch, the spokesman for DAB Bank Munich, wrote the
Post by email on Tuesday: “Because of bank secrecy [financial laws] we
cannot provide you with concrete information about the account. We took
the information very seriously and are examining the topic and are
taking, if necessary. the corresponding measures.”

DAB Munich is
the German branch of its French mother company bank, BNP Paribas.
French law outlaws BDS activity targeting the Jewish state. It
is unclear if action by BNP Paribas against the BDS-Kampagne account is
connected to possible violations of French anti-BDS or anti-terrorism
laws.

The BDS-Kampagne website promotes a “petition in support of the right to call for a boycott of Israeli goods in France.”

According
to German bank law, the BDS-Kampagne will have 60 days to close its
account and remove the DAB bank information from its website.

Energetic
anti-Israel activist Doris Ghannam is listed on the BDS website as the
holder of the DAB account. Asked by the Post via telephone on Monday
about the closure of her DAB account, she insisted that the newspaper
send her a written query, but declined to respond to the queries,
including questions about BDS-Kampagne’s views of Hezbollah and Hamas,
which are designated by the EU and US as terrorist organizations, and
about the Iranian-backed al-Quds Day protests in Germany.